What’s far more interesting than the pathetic Smollett, obviously another actor desperate for
attention, is the reaction of the press and Democratic politicians at the time. They, or a great many of them anyway, instantly believed this absurd plot, just as they believed the equally absurd Trump-Russia collusion and a host of other obvious calumnies. (In Hollywood, they say a possible hit movie is “want-to-see.” This is “want-to-believe.”)